Watch Christmas at Moose Factory (1971) Online Free
A study of life at Christmastime in Moose Factory, an old settlement mainly composed of Cree families on the shore of James Bay, composed entirely of children's crayon drawings and narrated by children.
Cast
Alanis Obomsawin
More Like This
For the Record
The Filmmakers’ Olympics are drenched in sweat and blood. The toppest of top athletes meld their bodies with their gear, always prepared to push themselves to the utmost physical and mental limits. Their mantra: Anything for the team – anything for the spectators – anything for the record. United, they clench their butts and do their very best to capture the movie, before the film can capture them.
2022
Dim.: How the Film Was Born
Documentary behind the making of the animated short film Dim.
Echo
A reframing of the classic tale of Narcissus, the director draws on snippets of conversation with a trusted friend to muse on gender and identity. Just as shimmers are difficult to grasp as knowable entities, so does the concept of a gendered self feel unknowable except through reflection. Is it Narcissus that Echo truly longs for, or simply the Knowing he possesses when gazing upon himself?
2023
Cuando llega la noche
A short film about the director’s relationship with sewing, a craft he knew from a very young age thanks to his seamstress mother.
2023
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.
2022
Dear Diary: World's First Pranks
Eep reveals how a comical accident led her and Dawn to discover the joys of tricking their families and set about performing "the world's first pranks."
2021
Howl from Beyond the Fog
Set during the Meiji reformation era in a small village in Kyushu, Japan. The story revolves around a young boy named Izana and a blind woman named Takiri, the two encounter the large monster Nebula who since ancient times was feared as the god of lake Amenosagiri. Theme of the film focuses on the Japanese concept of light and darkness, as told by puppetry and model miniaturization of the films’ world with practical special effects by Keizo Murase.
2019
Wishing Apple
Magic apples doing magic things.
2019
Belinda
A documentary that follows a young French girl living in children's home from the age of nine to the age of twentythree.
2018
Viacrucis Migrante
A documentary film about men, women, and children fleeing northward from the existential threats in their home countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. They embark on a perilous journey with an uncertain outcome. Shortly after crossing the southern Mexican border, they find shelter with people who want to help them survive the ordeal of the at least 1,700-kilometer journey to the US.
2017
Black Ballerina
BLACK BALLERINA tells the story of several black women from different generations who fell in love with ballet. Six decades ago, while pursuing their dreams, Joan Myers Brown, Delores Browne and Raven Wilkinson confronted racism, exclusion and unequal opportunity. Today, young dancers of color continue to face formidable challenges breaking into the overwhelmingly white world of ballet. Moving back and forth in time, this lyrical, character driven film shows how far we still have to go and stimulates a fresh discussion about race, inclusion and opportunity across all sectors of American society.
2016
Summer's Puke is Winter's Delight
Painful events become memories over time. Still, we vomit and eat again. Life is Eco.
2016
Advanced Style
Advanced Style examines the lives of seven unique New Yorkers whose eclectic personal style and vital spirit have guided their approach to aging. Based on Ari Seth Cohen’s famed blog of the same name, this film paints intimate and colorful portraits of independent, stylish women aged 62 to 95 who are challenging conventional ideas about beauty, aging, and Western’s culture’s increasing obsession with youth.
2014
A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times
Jayson Blair is the most infamous serial plagiarist of our time. He unleashed the massive scandal that rocked the New York Times and the entire world of journalism.
2014
Derby Crazy Love
Meet Smack Daddy, Suzy Hotrod, Kamikaze Kitten, and the other badass warriors leading the Roller Derby Revolution. Derby Crazy Love chronicles not only the birth and evolution of modern Flat Track Roller Derby, but also shows the people who are changing how we look at women in sport and femininity, one booty block at a time.
2013
Legacy
Story of an alien arriving on planet Earth, in search of a human specimen.
2009
Fetch!
A man plays fetch with his dog, only to have both him and his dog mired in a series of optical illusions.
2002
Good Old Cuttlas
Stick-figure animation makes for a witty genre send-up of the Western.
1990
Land Without Bread
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.
1933
Where Friendship Ceases
An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.
1926